Comparative mythology corpus

batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l14302-l14405

batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l14302-l14405

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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l14302-l14405
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
passage_locator:
  label: IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII. /
    XIII.; lines 14302-14405
  start: '14302'
  end: '14405'
  translation: The Mesnevi
  notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
    human review required.
canonical_text:
  quote: Death to appearance, life is,--in the main; Externally a loss;--intrinsically,
    gain.
  summary: The passage presents death for the faithful as apparent loss but intrinsic
    gain, frames return to God as movement from separation to union, narrates a servant
    asking ‘Alī to kill him to avoid sin, and gives ‘Alī’s response that providence
    governs death while he himself is detached from the body. It then denies that
    the Prophet’s conquest of Mekka arose from greed, contrasts pure perception with
    tainted sight, describes the true saint as a lion who sees many lives in death,
    recalls Muhammad testing recusants by inviting them to wish for death, and closes
    with an exhortation to leave darkness for bliss, light, and heaven’s gate.
  language: English
  quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
  text: Death is described as outward loss but inward gain and life.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:2
  text: A child in the womb is used as an image of a being destined to blossom in
    another world.
  category: object
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:3
  text: The speaker says the fruit of death is savoury and connects the slain with
    life.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:4
  text: The speaker asks trusted friends to slay him, saying his death is eternal
    life and will bring him to his love.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:5
  text: Return is defined as coming back home, from severance to union.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:6
  text: A servant appeals to ‘Alī and begs to be put to death so that he may flee
    a heinous sin.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: obs:7
  text: "‘Alī replies that even many knives or swords could not act against the decree
    of Providence."
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: obs:8
  text: "‘Alī says he will be the servant’s intercessor and is lord of his soul, not
    slave to flesh."
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: obs:9
  text: The body is described as frail and of no value, while liberation from flesh
    will lighten the soul.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:10
  text: Death is compared to a banquet and wounds to a flower.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:11
  text: The passage says the Prophet’s effort to subdue Mekka was not founded on lust
    for revenue.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: obs:12
  text: Angelic beings crowd heaven’s bounds to glimpse the Prophet, but he keeps
    his thoughts on God alone.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: obs:13
  text: Green spectacles are used as an example of a device that makes the sun appear
    green until removed.
  category: object
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: obs:14
  text: A distant observer mistakes dust raised by a horseman for a saint.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: obs:15
  text: Satan is said to see dust and respond with envy, hatred, malice, and wrath
    toward the son of earth.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: obs:16
  text: The passage warns that observing God’s saints with envy indicates tainted
    vision.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: obs:17
  text: A speaker identifies himself as God’s Lion and Lion of the Truth and reproves
    mere form.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: obs:18
  text: The lion of eternity sees many modes of life in death and courts death like
    a moth courting a candle.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: obs:19
  text: Muhammad presents the wish for speedy death as an assay of truth; no recusant
    dares to utter the prayer.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: obs:20
  text: The recusants prefer to pay tribute for their lives and beg the lamp of truth
    not to destroy them or their wives.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: obs:21
  text: The closing exhortation calls the addressee to quit doubt, forsake a dunghill,
    enter an abode of bliss, follow light over an abyss, enter heaven’s gate, and
    avoid a bottomless pit.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:16
figures:
- id: fig:1
  name_or_label: poetic speaker
  description: The speaking voice that longs toward the world of doom, asks to be
    slain, and exhorts the addressee at the end.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  - role:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:16
- id: fig:2
  name_or_label: God
  description: The divine being who forbids casting lives away and whose decree of
    Providence governs death.
  role_refs:
  - role:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:5
- id: fig:3
  name_or_label: trusted friends
  description: The friends addressed by the speaker as possible agents of his desired
    death.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: fig:4
  name_or_label: the servant
  description: A servant who appeals to ‘Alī and asks to be killed to flee a heinous
    sin and escape the burden of crime.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: fig:5
  name_or_label: "‘Alī"
  description: The respondent who tells the servant that Providence has decreed the
    act, promises intercession, and declares detachment from the body.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
- id: fig:6
  name_or_label: the Prophet / Muhammed
  description: The Prophet whose conquest of Mekka is said not to have been motivated
    by revenue, whose attention remains on God, and who tests recusants with the wish
    for death.
  role_refs:
  - role:6
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
  - ev:14
- id: fig:7
  name_or_label: angelic train
  description: Blessed angels who crowd heaven’s bounds to see and honor the Prophet.
  role_refs:
  - role:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: fig:8
  name_or_label: distant looker-on
  description: An observer who mistakes dust stirred by a horseman for a saint.
  role_refs:
  - role:10
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: fig:9
  name_or_label: Satan
  description: The being who sees dust and expresses envy, hatred, malice, and wrath
    toward the son of earth.
  role_refs:
  - role:11
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
- id: fig:10
  name_or_label: God’s saints
  description: Saints whose observers may be affected by envy and tainted vision.
  role_refs:
  - role:12
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: fig:11
  name_or_label: God’s Lion / Lion of the Truth
  description: A figure who loves God, reproves mere form, and is contrasted with
    a worldly lion that hunts prey and spoil.
  role_refs:
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
  - ev:13
- id: fig:12
  name_or_label: recusants / stiff-necked people
  description: People challenged to wish for speedy death who do not dare to say the
    prayer and instead choose tribute for their lives.
  role_refs:
  - role:13
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
  - ev:15
- id: fig:13
  name_or_label: addressee
  description: The person addressed in the closing exhortation to quit doubt and enter
    the abode of bliss.
  role_refs:
  - role:14
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:16
roles:
- id: role:1
  label: death-seeker
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  - fig:4
  basis: Both the speaking voice and the servant ask for death, associating it with
    life, love, or escape from sin.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:4
- id: role:2
  label: divine authority
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  basis: God forbids self-destruction and Providence decrees the outcome of death-dealing
    acts.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:5
- id: role:3
  label: addressed slayers
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  basis: The friends are directly asked to slay the speaker without reproach.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: role:4
  label: intercessor
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  basis: "‘Alī explicitly promises to be the servant’s intercessor."
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: role:5
  label: detached saintly warrior
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  - fig:11
  basis: "‘Alī declares lordship over his soul rather than slavery to flesh, and the
    Lion of the Truth loves God and reproves mere form."
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:12
- id: role:6
  label: prophet without worldly greed
  assigned_to:
  - fig:6
  basis: The passage denies that the Prophet’s conquest of Mekka was motivated by
    revenue or spoils.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: role:7
  label: tester of truth
  assigned_to:
  - fig:6
  basis: Muhammad uses the wish for speedy death as an ordeal or assay of truth for
    recusants.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: role:8
  label: spiritual exhorter
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: The speaker urges the addressee to quit doubt and enter bliss, light, and
    heaven’s gate.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:16
- id: role:9
  label: heavenly witnesses
  assigned_to:
  - fig:7
  basis: The angelic train crowd heaven’s bounds to see and honor the Prophet.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: role:10
  label: mistaken observer
  assigned_to:
  - fig:8
  basis: The observer mistakes dust for a saint.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: role:11
  label: envious adversary
  assigned_to:
  - fig:9
  basis: Satan responds with envy, hatred, malice, and wrath.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: role:12
  label: objects of tainted perception
  assigned_to:
  - fig:10
  basis: The passage warns against viewing God’s saints with envy’s eyes.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: role:13
  label: recusants avoiding death-test
  assigned_to:
  - fig:12
  basis: The recusants do not dare to utter the prayer for death and pay tribute for
    their lives.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
  - ev:15
- id: role:14
  label: wavering seeker
  assigned_to:
  - fig:13
  basis: The addressee is told to quit doubt, leave darkness, and enter heaven’s gate.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:16
symbols:
- id: sym:1
  label: death as life and gain
  literal_form: death described as outward loss but inward life and gain
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:4
  - fig:5
  - fig:11
  - fig:12
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
  - ev:6
  - ev:13
  - ev:14
- id: sym:2
  label: womb before world
  literal_form: child in the mother’s womb destined to blossom in the world
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: sym:3
  label: fruit of death
  literal_form: savoury fruit of death
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: sym:4
  label: return home / union’s dome
  literal_form: return from severance to union’s dome
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: sym:5
  label: knife, sword, dagger
  literal_form: knives, sword, and dagger as instruments of death or sacrifice
  associated_figures:
  - fig:4
  - fig:5
  - fig:11
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
  - ev:13
- id: sym:6
  label: death banquet
  literal_form: death described as a banquet
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: sym:7
  label: wounds as flower
  literal_form: wounds described as a flower that climbs gracefully
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: sym:8
  label: treasures of the spheres as rubbish
  literal_form: celestial treasures and animating souls counted as rubbish driven
    by breeze
  associated_figures:
  - fig:6
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: sym:9
  label: green spectacles
  literal_form: green spectacles that make the sun appear green
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: sym:10
  label: dust mistaken for saint
  literal_form: dust cloud raised by a horseman and mistaken for a saint
  associated_figures:
  - fig:8
  - fig:9
  - fig:10
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
- id: sym:11
  label: lion of truth
  literal_form: lion used for God’s Lion and Lion of the Truth
  associated_figures:
  - fig:11
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: sym:12
  label: moth and candle
  literal_form: moth courting a candle as an image for courting death
  associated_figures:
  - fig:11
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: sym:13
  label: lamp of truth
  literal_form: Muhammad addressed as lamp of truth
  associated_figures:
  - fig:6
  - fig:12
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: sym:14
  label: darkness, light, abyss, gate, pit
  literal_form: darkness, guiding light over an abyss, heaven’s gate, and bottomless
    pit
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:13
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:16
scenes:
- id: scene:1
  label: Death recast as gain and return
  summary: The passage opens by describing death as inward life and gain, compares
    present existence to a child in the womb, and frames true return as movement from
    severance to union.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:2
  - sym:3
  - sym:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
- id: scene:2
  label: Servant begs ‘Alī for death
  summary: A servant asks ‘Alī to kill him so that he may escape a heinous sin and
    the burden of crime.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:4
  - fig:5
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: scene:3
  label: "‘Alī’s providence and body-detachment speech"
  summary: "‘Alī answers that death cannot occur against Providence, promises intercession,
    and declares his soul free from attachment to the frail body."
  figure_refs:
  - fig:2
  - fig:5
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:5
  - sym:6
  - sym:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
- id: scene:4
  label: Prophet’s conquest without greed
  summary: The Prophet’s subduing of Mekka is said not to arise from revenue-seeking;
    even celestial treasures and angelic attention do not distract him from God.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:2
  - fig:6
  - fig:7
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
- id: scene:5
  label: Examples of tainted perception
  summary: Green spectacles and dust mistaken for a saint illustrate distorted vision;
    Satan’s envy and the warning against viewing saints with envy continue the lesson.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:8
  - fig:9
  - fig:10
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:9
  - sym:10
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
- id: scene:6
  label: Lion of Truth courts death
  summary: The Lion of the Truth is contrasted with a worldly lion and described as
    seeing many lives in death and courting death as a moth courts a candle.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:11
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:5
  - sym:11
  - sym:12
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
  - ev:13
- id: scene:7
  label: Muhammad tests recusants with the wish for death
  summary: Muhammad challenges recusants to wish for speedy death; none dare to utter
    it, and they instead prefer tribute and plead for their lives.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:6
  - fig:12
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:13
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
  - ev:15
- id: scene:8
  label: Final exhortation from doubt to bliss
  summary: The speaker calls the addressee to leave doubt and a dunghill, enter bliss,
    follow light over the abyss, enter heaven’s gate, and avoid the bottomless pit.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:13
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:14
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:16
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
  label: death as true life
  taxonomy_refs:
  - death_rebirth
  - resurrection
  basis: The passage repeatedly states that death is inward life, eternal life, and
    a condition in which many modes of life are seen.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
  - ev:13
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage is devotional and didactic; it does not narrate a literal
    resurrection event within the selected lines.
- id: motif:2
  label: return from separation to union
  taxonomy_refs:
  - annihilation_union
  - return
  basis: Return is explicitly described as coming home and moving from severance to
    union’s dome.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  confidence: high
  cautions: The text states the motif in theological and mystical language rather
    than through an extended narrative journey.
- id: motif:3
  label: longing for the divine beloved
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_beloved
  - mystical_quest
  basis: The speaker says death will bring him to his love and laments being barred
    from the beloved interview.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The beloved is not named in these lines, though the surrounding devotional
    language points toward God.
- id: motif:4
  label: detachment from bodily form
  taxonomy_refs:
  - annihilation_union
  - wisdom
  basis: "‘Alī says he is lord of his soul, not slave to flesh, and that his body
    has no value in his sight."
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage emphasizes spiritual detachment, not physical self-harm as
    an approved act; God’s prohibition against casting lives away is also stated.
- id: motif:5
  label: purified versus tainted vision
  taxonomy_refs:
  - wisdom
  - duality
  basis: The green spectacles and dust mistaken for a saint illustrate how perception
    is distorted by the observer’s condition, and envy toward saints is called tainted
    vision.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  confidence: high
  cautions: The examples are moral analogies rather than a separate mythic episode.
- id: motif:6
  label: ordeal of wishing for death
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_judgment
  - wisdom
  basis: Muhammad uses the call to wish for speedy death as an assay of truth; the
    recusants refuse and choose tribute for their lives.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
  - ev:15
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The passage frames this as a truth-test but does not present a formal
    trial scene beyond the challenge and refusal.
- id: motif:7
  label: passage from darkness to heavenly gate
  taxonomy_refs:
  - mystical_quest
  - ascent
  basis: The closing exhortation tells the addressee to leave darkness, follow light
    over an abyss, enter heaven’s gate, and avoid the bottomless pit.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:16
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The imagery is exhortative and symbolic; no literal ascent journey is
    narrated.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
  type: quote
  locator: lines 14302-14311
  quote_or_summary: "“Death to appearance, life is”; death is outward loss and inward
    gain; a child in the womb must blossom in the world; God forbids casting lives
    away."
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14312-14321
  quote_or_summary: The speaker calls the fruit of death savoury, says the slain live,
    asks friends to slay him, and says death is eternal life and will bring him to
    his love.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:3
  type: quote
  locator: lines 14320-14325
  quote_or_summary: "“’Tis only he returns, who comes back to his home. Our true return’s
    from severance to union’s dome.”"
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:4
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14324-14329
  quote_or_summary: The servant appeals to ‘Alī and asks him to put him to death so
    that his soul may escape the burden of crime.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:5
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14330-14337
  quote_or_summary: "‘Alī replies that even many knives or swords could not take effect
    unless Providence decreed it, and says he will be the servant’s intercessor and
    is lord of his soul."
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:6
  type: quote
  locator: lines 14337-14341
  quote_or_summary: "“My body frail no value has now in my sight”; liberation from
    flesh lightens the soul; “Death’s but a banquet; wounds, a flower.”"
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:7
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14348-14353
  quote_or_summary: The Prophet’s endeavor to subdue Mekka is said to have no basis
    in desire for revenue, and he refused the treasures of the lofty spheres.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:8
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14352-14365
  quote_or_summary: Angels crowd heaven to glimpse the Prophet, but he takes no note
    and keeps his thoughts on God; the treasures of the spheres are counted as rubbish,
    so worldly lands would not be coveted.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:9
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14370-14375
  quote_or_summary: Green spectacles make the sun appear green; when the spectacles
    are removed, the viewer sees aright.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:10
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14374-14379
  quote_or_summary: A horseman stirs up dust; a distant observer supposes the dust
    to be a saint; Satan sees dust and speaks of envy, hatred, malice, and wrath toward
    the son of earth.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:11
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14380-14385
  quote_or_summary: The passage warns that anyone who observes God’s saints with envy
    has tainted vision and an inheritance of hate.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:12
  type: quote
  locator: lines 14384-14389
  quote_or_summary: "“God’s Lion am I. God I love. I’m ‘Lion of the Truth.’ Mere form
    I aye reprove.”"
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:13
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14388-14395
  quote_or_summary: A worldly lion hunts prey and spoil, but a lion of eternity sees
    many modes of life in death and courts death like a moth, with the murderer’s
    knife as his candle.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:14
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14396-14401
  quote_or_summary: The passage says revealed words call death a blessing for the
    faithful and urges stiff-necked people to wish for speedy death; Muhammad uses
    this as an assay of truth, and no recusant dares say the prayer.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:15
  type: quote
  locator: lines 14400-14405
  quote_or_summary: 'The recusants prefer tribute for their lives and beg: “O lamp
    of truth, destroy us not, our wives!”'
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:16
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14406-14413
  quote_or_summary: The speaker urges the addressee to give his hand, quit doubt,
    forsake the dunghill, enter the abode of bliss, follow light from darkness over
    the abyss, enter heaven’s gate, and avoid the bottomless pit.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
confidence:
  extraction: high
  motif_candidates: medium
  comparison_claims: uncertain
  notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Motif candidates identify
    passage-level patterns using the supplied motif-family list; comparison claims
    are omitted because the passage does not itself support a cross-tradition comparison.
reviewer_status:
  status: needs_review
  reviewer: ''
  reviewed_at: ''
  notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-29'
notes: |-
  Line numbering follows the user-supplied range, though the final exhortation evidence continues the visible supplied passage text beyond the stated end label.
  batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
  custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg__l14302-l14405
  passage_sha256=2107e0aec82ac8d89b87db5f2480b14f59b1cdd40ee04ce68466b358ffc8ff33